>The spin of the story has it, it was all about "spying against illegal activity". Doing anything against the current government is illegal in every country a

>The spin of the story has it, it was all about "spying against illegal activity". Doing anything against the current government is illegal in every country and always has been. The US rebelling against British rule was also illegal at the time. >A democratic society not subject to tight control seemingly is a very scary thing. Even more so when it is your own. Again, the "who watches the watchmen" question. Most of our western democracies are lacking checks and bounds. We can only vote who represents us, but we can't vote for what they do when in power. If we disagree with them we have to wait ~4 more years before we can vote them out. In that time they can do an insane amount of irreversible damage and there's no consequences for them.